{"id":6854,"date":"2013-05-13T19:59:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T23:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=6854"},"modified":"2013-05-13T20:23:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T00:23:31","slug":"movie-before-book-or-book-before-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2013\/05\/13\/movie-before-book-or-book-before-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Before Book? Or Book Before Movie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She asked what I was reading. So I told her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/4703427-dust-of-dreams\"><em>Dust of Dreams<\/em><\/a> and showed her the book. She said I am smart. This launches into a weird conversation culminating in\u00c2\u00a0<strong>the<\/strong> question. She asked, &#8220;Is it weird I watch the movie before reading the book?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0A little over a year ago a friend asked me the same question.<\/p>\n<p>My response was I have done the same thing. I pointed out I watched the first three Harry Potter movies without reading the books. But, then I really was confused about the story of the third one enough, I ended up getting the books and reading them before catching up on the movies. But that is not really a good example.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what do you do? Movie first? Book first? Both ways depending on mood?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My thoughts&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 12.15625px;\">Some movies made no sense to me, so I went back to read the book, and watched the movie again. The 2nd time around, the movie made much more sense. So often I try to read the book first, so I can enjoy the movie without feeling lost.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Some stories seem not that interesting. Why invest 10-20 hours reading a book when I can just watch a 2-3 hour movie?<\/li>\n<li>Books allow me to give my own visual\u00c2\u00a0identity to characters, places, and things.<\/li>\n<li>Watching the movie gives a director&#8217;s visual identity to characters, places, and things.<\/li>\n<li>For me, movie first or middle relies on the director&#8217;s visual identity instead of my own. I guess it depends on whether I like the director&#8217;s take over my own?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyway, I also showed her Goodreads as she was interested in what I thought about a book. (I have not read it. But maybe it can hook her up with friends who have?)<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and it is rather intelligent to call others smart. It feels nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She asked what I was reading. So I told her Dust of Dreams and showed her the book. She said I am smart. This launches into a weird conversation culminating in\u00c2\u00a0the question. 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